This work traces the importance of the peasant in agricultural economies. It provides an overview of the work by J.S. Mill, Friedrich List, Malthus and Chalmers, and the Hutterites of Manitoba. The text incorporates an appreciation of efficient smallholdings as units of production.

Women economists rarely feature in textbooks on the history of economic thought before 1960, despite the many articles and theses produced by them in the period. This book, asking why, and seeking to find those who supported women economists, looks at the lives and thought of the women who contributed to the building of the economics profession. A number of the papers focus on the sociology of the the economics discipline, including the failure to cite women economists. The volume also includes the personal memoir of the experience of one female graduate studying in the 1930s.

The articles in this special issue cover the history of women in the economics profession, a largely male-dominated academic field. Contributors explore the many ways in which women have contributed to economics, particularly the careers that women have made (or not made) while confronting discouragement and discrimination. By placing the status and role of these women in historical contexts, the authors seek to enrich our understanding of economics in the twentieth century. Contributors: Rebecca Gomez Betancourt, Jennifer Burns, Cleo Chassonnery-Zaigouche, Jennifer Cohen, Camila Orozco...